Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Laws of Corporate American Profiteering

(While these "laws" are basically unsung, they are quite valid, and can be observed on a regular basis.)

Law of Deliberate Inadequacy
Never completely fix, repair, cure, heal, replenish, fulfill, or replace anything. Always leave some measure of incompleteness that will require your customer to spend more money to fix, repair, cure, heal, replenish, fulfill, or replace the incomplete thing, which (unbeknownst to the unwary customer) would only lead to yet another incomplete thing that will require even more of their money. If you cannot find anything that would be left incomplete after you finish the task, then secretly create something that is incomplete, i.e. secretly find something to sabotage and then sabotage it before approaching the customer with the completed task. An ideal product or task would be one that creates at least as many new problems for the customer as the original problems it solved. And ideally, these inherently flawed products or tasks would be the only ones available to the customer throughout the entire society.

Law of Deceptive Advertisement
Never tell the whole truth about any product or task that you intend to sell to your customers. Always tell them what they want to hear, i.e. always take advantage of their base, carnal desires and lusts, and always appeal to their own self-interests and selfish vanity. At the same time, if you must use morality, then give them a false sense of morality by feeding them parts of the truth; besides, they're usually too lazy to tell the difference anyway. Nevertheless, also omit those parts of the truth that could damage any or all acceptance of the product or task. All you care about is selling massive quantities of the product or task. It is not your job to question the validity or righteousness of that product or task. So if selling massive quantities of the product or task requires that you lie, conceal part of the truth or all of the truth, distort the facts, or any combination of the aforementioned, then that is how you advertise the product or task.

Law of Private Membership
The best way to persuade a society to accept your agenda and purchase vast amounts of your product or task is to first persuade that society's leadership. And the best way to persuade that society's leadership is by becoming those leaders, and then by preventing anyone contrary to your agenda from attaining the same leadership office. Once you and your team have secured crucial leadership offices throughout society, you then secretly rewrite every last law and procedure throughout society, granting you and your team vast amounts of exclusive power and control while making it that much more difficult for anyone contrary to your agenda to even survive in your "New World Order." At the same time, you and your team create secret and exclusive yet "all-powerful" elite leadership positions that only you and your team know about and occupy. That way, you and your team will always win the game before it even begins, simply because you and your team already own the game outright.

Law of Covert Operations
Since you really don't want prying eyes to expose the dishonest plots and operations behind your products or tasks, enshroud everything you do with secrecy. Never let the right hand know what the left hand is doing. From start to finish, every product or task developed for sale must be developed behind closed doors. And only you and your team know about the product or task until it is actually released to the market for sale. That way, you can employ whatever methods you desire to manufacture and mass-produce the product or task as inexpensively as possible, even if those same methods are harmful or fatal to your blue-collar employees, to your end-customers, to the environment, or even to society as a whole. Furthermore, secrecy will allow you and your team to carry out whatever dirty work needs to be done to keep your corporation on top.

Law of Orchestrated Catastrophe
If your product or task would stand a far better chance on the market after the occurrence of a violent disaster, an act of war, a terrorist attack, or any other horrible event that would threaten or claim numerous innocent lives, but there is very little opportunity for that event to take place, then you secretly create the event and unleash it onto an unwary public. Afterwards, as if it were a godsend, you then release your product or task to the market, reap massive profits, and achieve savior-like status overnight. Unless someone really does his or her homework, no one will even suspect that you or your team had anything to do with that horrible event in the first place.

Law of Prefabricated Necessity
If you have a product or task that would greatly fulfill a specific need, but that need barely exists or doesn't exist at all, then you and your team must secretly create that need throughout all of society, either by deceptive persuasion or by covert physical activity. Even if the creation of that need is harmful or fatal to your blue-collar employees, to your end-customers, to the environment, or even to society as a whole, it doesn't matter; only the success of your product or task matters, only the subsequent profits generated by your product or task matter, and only the continued success of your corporation matters.

Law of Hostile Persuasion
Some people just get in the way. You and your team will, at some point in time, encounter some sort of threat to your profits. It could be a whistle-blower who is about to expose your corporation's most sensitive vulnerabilities, or any fraudulent information your corporation fabricated, or your corporation's corruption and dirty work, or the actual inadequacy of your product or task. It could be a renegade former-member of your "inner-circle" who is bent on destroying your corporation. It could even be a competitor who is about to release a product or task that is actually superior to yours in every way. First, you do everything possible to discredit the threat so that nothing originating from that threat has any merit. As such, no matter how valid the threat's claims against your corporation may be, everyone will simply ignore those claims. If, however, the claims originating from the threat will be far too potent to ignore, then more drastic measures must be taken. Depending on the long-term expenses of each covert operation, you will either have to bribe the threat with millions of dollars (even billions of dollars) in hush-money or corporate buy-outs, or the threat will have "met with a sudden fatal misfortune." Regardless of how it is done, and regardless of how many innocent people "mysteriously" wind up dead, the threat must be silenced, and the competition mercilessly crushed, once and for all.

Law of Limited Liability
No matter what happens, never claim responsibility for any fatality, loss, damage, or misfortune resulting from the use of your product or task. When advertising or selling the product or task, write a contract, in fine print, that severely limits your liability should any such disaster take place subsequent to the use of your product or task. If you are required by law to list the inherent dangers and risks associated with using your product or task, then list them in fine print as well. It is a known fact that the general public at large always ignores the fine print. So, since you "did your best" to warn the people "in good faith," any disaster they suffer from purchasing and using your product or task is entirely their problem, not yours. Let them walk away with the misery (that is, if they're still alive to walk away!) while you in turn walk away with billions of dollars (even trillions of dollars) in profits.


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